Case study about Apple how they get benefitted from AWS
🔰 What Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is the delivery of different services through the Internet. These resources include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and software. Rather than keeping files on a proprietary hard drive or local storage device, cloud-based storage makes it possible to save them to a remote database. As long as an electronic device has access to the web, it has access to the data and the software programs to run it.
Cloud computing is a popular option for people and businesses for a number of reasons including cost savings, increased productivity, speed and efficiency, performance, and security.
Benefits of cloud computing:
Ease of use: Because Amazon ECS setup is straightforward and it manages all of the details of the cluster, the team had a prototype up and running in under two months.
Speed and agility: Time to deploy software changes went from hours to minutes, and each team can now develop and update its respective applications independently because the applications are resource isolated with no cross-dependencies.
Scalable capacity: Auto Scaling groups allow the compute capacity to scale up to handle dynamic job loads.
Operational efficiency: No extra infrastructure engineering time is spent installing software and maintaining a cluster — Amazon ECS handles everything from cluster management to container orchestration.
🔰 Types of cloud computing:
The three main types of cloud computing include Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Each type of cloud computing provides different levels of control, flexibility, and management so that you can select the right set of services for your needs.
🔶Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
IaaS contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT. It typically provides access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space. IaaS gives you the highest level of flexibility and management control over your IT resources. It is most similar to the existing IT resources with which many IT departments and developers are familiar.
🔶Platform as a Service (PaaS)
PaaS removes the need for you to manage underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems), and allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your applications. This helps you be more efficient as you don’t need to worry about resource procurement, capacity planning, software maintenance, patching, or any of the other undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in running your application.
🔶Software as a Service (SaaS)
SaaS provides you with a complete product that is run and managed by the service provider. In most cases, people referring to SaaS are referring to end-user applications (such as web-based email). With a SaaS offering, you don’t have to think about how the service is maintained or how the underlying infrastructure is managed. You only need to think about how you will use that particular software.
🔰 Cloud computing with AWS:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
🔰 Use Case of Apple
Apple is far from the only company to run parts of its cloud on Amazon servers. A number of large tech companies that have filed to go public this year have revealed in financial documents that they pay Amazon hundreds of millions per year.
Lyft said it has committed to paying Amazon $300 million through 2021 due to an ongoing contract, while Pinterest says it will have paid Amazon around $750 million by the end of a six-year contract expiring in 2023. A number of other companies not large enough to operate their own data centers or cloud services of their own — like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft do — have also publicly disclosed substantial AWS contracts, including a more than $1 billion commitment from Snap Inc. running through 2021. Other big tech firms like Netflix and Spotify have notably been using AWS for years, making their streaming empires reliant on Amazon’s cloud.
It’s not clear in this case that Apple will require much more compute from AWS and thus a larger, more expensive contract. Apple runs a number of data centers of its own throughout the US and it is likely a chunk, or even a majority, of its online services run on those data centers, although the company has never explicitly disclosed this information. Neither Amazon nor Apple was immediately available for comment.
Amazon Web Services' move to offer Mac instances on EC2 is likely to be an accelerant for software development on Apple Silicon in 2021. The AWS move is also likely to give Apple heft in the data center.
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